If you get someone who's focused on the frustrations primarily and doesn't really take accountability in terms of what they could do differently, try to find other areas to probe. Do you think a mediocre engineer can be a world-class top 1% engineering manager? "You need to be a very good engineer, but you also need to be very good at reading people," she says.

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